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Vulnerable to Misinformation? - Verifi

Offered By: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) via YouTube

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ACM SIGCHI Courses Education & Teaching Courses Psychology Courses Digital Media Courses Social Media Courses Misinformation Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore a visual analytic system called Verifi2, designed to help investigate misinformation on social media. Learn about state-of-the-art computational methods used to highlight linguistic, network, and image features that distinguish suspicious news accounts from verified ones. Discover how users can interact with complex dimensions characterizing misinformation and compare real and suspicious news outlets. Gain insights from expert interviews in digital media, communications, education, and psychology, highlighting the potential of Verifi2 as an educational tool to combat misinformation. This 20-minute conference talk, presented at the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, addresses the critical need for intuitive tools to help social media users differentiate between misinformation and verified news.

Syllabus

Vulnerable to misinformation?: Verifi!


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ACM SIGCHI

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